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title: Next day, Redhead told Tom of a wolf, the size of a yearling heifer,… — Celtic Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: Next day, Redhead told Tom of a wolf, the size of a yearling heifer, that used to be serenading about the walls, and eating people and cattle; and said what a pleasure it would give the king to have it killed. Who acts: Redhead, yearling heifer, pleasure. A sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph
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# Celtic Fairy Tales, The Lad With the Goat-skin, sentence 44

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Next day, Redhead told Tom of a wolf, the size of a yearling heifer, that used to be serenading about the walls, and eating people and cattle; and said what a pleasure it would give the king to have it killed.

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**Who acts:** Redhead, yearling heifer, pleasure · **What happens:** tell, use, serenade, eat, say, give · **To what, where:** Tom, people, king, pleasure · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Lad With the Goat-skin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Redhead, yearling heifer, pleasure), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7885:33:44
# text = Next day, Redhead told Tom of a wolf, the size of a yearling heifer, that used to be serenading about the walls, and eating people and cattle; and said what a pleasure it would give the king to have it killed.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Redhead	Redhead	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Tom	Tom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	iobj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	size	size	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	yearling	yearling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	heifer	heifer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	used	use	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux	_	_
22	serenading	serenade	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
23	about	about	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	eating	eat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
29	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
35	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	40	obj	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
38	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	ccomp	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	to	to	PART	TO	_	44	mark	_	_
44	have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	acl	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	obj	_	_
46	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	44	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Redhead |  | Tom of a wolf |  | day |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tom=Recipient |
| 2 | **use** | past | a yearling heifer |  |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **serenade** | to-infinitive · progressive | a yearling heifer *not said here* |  |  |  |  | about the walls | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | gerund | a yearling heifer *not said here* | people and cattle |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Redhead *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **give** | would | a pleasure | the king |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent what=Recipient king=Theme |
| 7 | **have** | to-infinitive | a pleasure *not said here* | pleasure |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **kill** | participle | pleasure *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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